How the U.K. Became World Leader in Sequencing the Coronavirus Genome
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. Updated: 01 Feb 2021, 07:43 AM IST The Wall Street Journal
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Every week across the U.K., a fleet of courier trucks ferries chilled waste material from half a million Covid-19 tests to a genome-sequencing facility in Cambridgeshire, eastern England.
The daily operation is part of a Covid-19 surveillance system that has made the U.K. the world’s leading sequencer of the coronavirus genome and helped it to spot a more contagious, and possibly more deadly, variant of the virus that in most countries would have long gone unnoticed.
The US has administered nearly 30M doses of Covid-19 vaccine
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, on January 30. Johnny Milano/Bloomberg/Getty Images
The US has administered more than 29.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reported that 29,577,902 doses have been administered about 59% of the 49,932,850 doses distributed.
That means 24 million people have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and about 5.25 million people have been fully vaccinated, according to CDC data.
States have 72 hours to report vaccine data, so data published by the CDC may be delayed.
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